Guest Interview: Nutrient cycling in the hadal trenches (6 to 11 km) and the crucial role they play in global element cycling. Professor Ronnie N. Glud, a leading biochemist and Director of the Danish Centre for Hadal Research (HADAL) talks us through how the trenches, once thought to be barren, are actually "dynamic deep-sea hotspots with intensified microbial activity and diversity". Learn about:

We also have a surprise blobfish guest!

The podcast is self-sustaining (just) thanks to our lovely listeners. Thom and Alan take no money for the show. All money is put back into running it. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

C Wright

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Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

Element cycling and microbial life in the hadal realm

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: Ronnie N. Glud

Welcome back to the Deep-Sea Podcast, your punk take on all things deep sea! Join Dr. Thom Linley and Professor Alan Jamieson as they dive into the latest from the abyssal plain and beyond.

Deep Sea News Highlights: We kick things off with a rethinking of the deep-sea boundary! Professor Alan Jamieson discusses his recent "food for thought" paper that challenges the long-held 200-meter definition, arguing for a more scientifically relevant boundary of 1,000 meters. Find out why this seemingly arbitrary line might be doing "a lot of damage" to our understanding and attitude towards the deep sea.

Also in the news, get ready for updates on:

Guest Interview: Nutrient cycling in the hadal trenches (6 to 11 km) and the crucial role they play in global element cycling. Professor Ronnie N. Glud, a leading biochemist and Director of the Danish Centre for Hadal Research (HADAL), talks us through how the trenches, once thought to be barren, are actually "dynamic deep-sea hotspots with intensified microbial activity and diversity". Learn about:

We also have a surprise blobfish guest!

The podcast is self-sustaining (just) thanks to our lovely listeners. Thom and Alan take no money for the show. All money is put back into running it. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

C Wright

Check out our podcast merch here!

Feel free to get in touch with us with questions or your own tales from the high seas on:

[email protected]

We’d love to actually play your voice, so feel free to record a short audio note on our brand new answerphone!

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

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Twitter: @DeepSeaPod

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Alan - @Hadalbloke

Thom - @ThomLinley 

Thom - @thom.linley 

Inkfish - @inkfishexpeditions

Thom @thomaslinley.com

John Young Buchanan - Chemist on the Challenger Expedition

Edward Forbes - Deep-sea naturalist

Sir John Murray - Father of modern oceanography

Notable people buried in Dean Cemetery

Join our Patreon to get access to the Discord

The supergiant amphipod wiki page

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

Element cycling and microbial life in the hadal realm

Reconsidering the term ‘deep sea’ | ICES Journal of Marine Science | Oxford Academic

Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities Expeditions

Historic Shipwrecks Come to Light in the Great Lakes - The New York Times

Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary -- Live!

Deep-sea Limpet named after OnePiece character

Microbial Life on Earth: A Model for the Cosmos

Reef Chat from Moku Art Studio with Paola Santiago Padua and Meghan Jones 

Scientists find bioplastic that vanishes 80% even in extreme deep-sea conditions

Unveiling deep-sea biodegradation of microbially produced lactate-based polyester (LAHB) via plastisphere metagenomics and metatranscriptomics - ScienceDirect

Alan appeared on another podcast too:

We've Only Explored 0.001% of the Deep Sea - What's Lurking Below? | Discover Magazine Podcast 

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: Ronnie N. Glud

In this month's episode, we discuss mesophotic reefs, the deeper extents of coral reefs that have been overlooked in the past. It’s a wild ride that leads us to homemade hyperbaric chambers, the aquarium trade and the world’s most expensive fish. Strap in for a rollercoaster ride as we dive to the limits of scuba. 

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Mesophotic fish collecting video

Taken by Ghislain Bardout from Under The Pole. The diver is Timothy Bennett, and he was collecting for the Australian Museum Research Expedition.

One of Kai’s recent mesophotic reef papers

The hyperbaric chamber for fishes

The paper where the chamber is described

The peppermint Angelfish

Kai’s video of the peppermint angel

Teresa’s project

Her recent paper on black corals

The podcast is only possible with your help. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

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Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

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Sorry the episode is a little late…. But it’s a bumper! 

Alan has been checking out hypercars while sharks have been checking out Thom. In the news, we have art, anglerfish, squid and sea spiders. Then an orafish turns up, and we are all doomed.

In this month's episode, we discuss mesophotic reefs, the deeper extents of coral reefs that have been overlooked in the past. It’s a wild ride that leads us to homemade hyperbaric chambers, the aquarium trade and the world’s most expensive fish. Strap in for a rollercoaster ride as we dive to the limits of scuba. 

The podcast is only possible with your help. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Smorgindorg

Check out our podcast merch here!

Feel free to get in touch with us with questions or your own tales from the high seas on:

[email protected]

We’d love to actually play your voice so feel free to record a short audio note!

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

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Thom - @thom.linley 

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Join our Patreon to get access to the Discord

The New Zealand wandering anemone

The supergiant amphipod wiki page

Under the Sea Exhibit

Anglerfish radiation paper

Alexe's website

Oarfish are turning up everywhere

Andrew and Thom’s oarfish blog

DOSI new podcast - Think Deep!

Marine Snow Carbon Transport

Methane Powered Sea-Spiders

Ancient Oceans filled with Squid

Kai’s website

Instagram

Bluesky

Twitter

Mesophotic fish collecting video

Taken by Ghislain Bardout from Under The Pole. The diver is Timothy Bennett, and he was collecting for the Australian Museum Research Expedition.

One of Kai’s recent mesophotic reef papers

The hyperbaric chamber for fishes

The paper where the chamber is described

FishPix

The peppermint Angelfish

Kai’s video of the peppermint angel

Teresa’s project

Her recent paper on black corals

Ribbonfish larvae paper

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: The peppermint angel by Yi-Kai Tea

For this month’s interview, we speak with Dr. Georgia Nester, a colleague of Alan’s from the University of Western Australia, about eDNA (Environmental DNA is any genetic material left behind by organisms in an environment). She talks about how several collection methods, eg.: Niskin bottles, sponges and paper filters, located on the deep-sea lander system, can retrieve different types of eDNA from the deep. Georgia also touches on how diel migrators can really mess with eDNA data, and larvae gave her a surprise when she kept getting hits from very deep-living fish in her surface samples. Georgia even used a water sample to locate surprise eDNA evidence of the Giant Squid in Australian waters, which Al takes as a chance to remind  Thom of his Antarctic colossal squid failure. 

Alan talks about how valuable he thinks eDNA is, how it can give a great snapshot of what can’t be seen on the footage or in the submersible, and how it might be able to narrow down species that are difficult to catch, like Bassozetus cusk eels. 

The show is self-sustaining, but we couldn’t do it without you. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Don’t forget that becoming a patron also gives you access to the Discord and a like-minded community of deep-sea folks, including scientists, artists, students, and previous guests! Deep-sea news often breaks there first.

Check out our podcast merch here!

Feel free to get in touch with us with questions or your own tales from the high seas at:

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Thom - @ThomLinley 

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Thom @thomaslinley.com

Nester, G. M., Suter, L., Kitchener, J. A., Bunce, M., Polanowski, A. M., Wasserman, J., & Deagle, B. (2024). Long-distance Southern Ocean environmental DNA (eDNA) transect provides insights into spatial marine biota and invasion pathways for non-native species. Science of the Total Environment, 951, 175657.

Takahashi, M., Saccò, M., Kestel, J. H., Nester, G., Campbell, M. A., Van Der Heyde, M., ... & Allentoft, M. E. (2023). Aquatic environmental DNA: A review of the macro-organismal biomonitoring revolution. Science of the Total Environment, 873, 162322.

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: Microsoft CoPilot

“Exploration is about the place, adventurism is about the person, science is about the question”

Professor Alan Jamieson

In an episode recorded earlier than usual, which is to say not recorded late, and so perhaps recorded right on time?... we are talking about environmental DNA or eDNA. 

Thom is headed off to Norfolk Island, north of New Zealand, to characterize the unique life in the region and hopefully not be eaten by sharks. Alan’s been up to secret things, organizing everyone’s lives and, for a change, is recording this episode from the same country as the last one. 

In the news, Thom and Alan discuss a recent paper about the extent of ocean exploration, the valuable research it was based on, and the unfortunately defeatist tone. There is a lot left to do, but we have done so much!

Also in the news: Bottom trawling releases not only organic carbon into the ocean but also pyrite, which reacts with oxygen in the water and reduces the oceans’ ability to absorb carbon from the air. An art installation pairs a Sri Lankan artist with JAMSTEC and NuStar Technologies for a collection of steel cubes located 7,000 meters (23,000 feet) below the ocean close to the Marianas Trench. The cubes are housed in a seismic monitoring system designed for registering tectonic plate movements. And finally Al and Thom discuss gene mutation in deep-sea fish and a new paper that gives evidence to an old theory that some deep-sea fish are  “ancient survivors,” from dinosaur times, while others are “new immigrants,” post mass extinction. 

For this month’s interview, we speak with Dr. Georgia Nester, a colleague of Alan’s from the University of Western Australia, about eDNA (Environmental DNA is any genetic material left behind by organisms in an environment). She talks about how several collection methods, eg.: Niskin bottles, sponges and paper filters, located on the deep-sea lander system, can retrieve different types of eDNA from the deep. Georgia also touches on how diel migrators can really mess with eDNA data, and larvae gave her a surprise when she kept getting hits from very deep-living fish in her surface samples. Georgia even used a water sample to locate surprise eDNA evidence of the Giant Squid in Australian waters, which Al takes as a chance to remind  Thom of his Antarctic colossal squid failure. 

Alan talks about how valuable he thinks eDNA is, how it can give a great snapshot of what can’t be seen on the footage or in the submersible, and how it might be able to narrow down species that are difficult to catch, like Bassozetus cusk eels. 

Hold onto your buoyant elbow glands because we’ve got a great episode here! 

The show is self-sustaining, but we couldn’t do it without you. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Don’t forget that becoming a patron also gives you access to the Discord and a like-minded community of deep-sea folks, including scientists, artists, students, and previous guests! Deep-sea news often breaks there first.

Check out our podcast merch here!

Feel free to get in touch with us with questions or your own tales from the high seas at:

[email protected]

We’d love to actually play your voice, so feel free to record a short audio note!

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

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Alan - @Hadalbloke

Thom - @ThomLinley 

Thom - @thom.linley 

Inkfish - @inkfishexpeditions

Thom @thomaslinley.com

Nester, G. M., Suter, L., Kitchener, J. A., Bunce, M., Polanowski, A. M., Wasserman, J., & Deagle, B. (2024). Long-distance Southern Ocean environmental DNA (eDNA) transect provides insights into spatial marine biota and invasion pathways for non-native species. Science of the Total Environment, 951, 175657.

Takahashi, M., Saccò, M., Kestel, J. H., Nester, G., Campbell, M. A., Van Der Heyde, M., ... & Allentoft, M. E. (2023). Aquatic environmental DNA: A review of the macro-organismal biomonitoring revolution. Science of the Total Environment, 873, 162322.

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: Microsoft CoPilot

Song of the month: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne, performed by William Jamieson

We are still talking about Antarctica, the continent that keeps on giving!

For this month's interview, we speak with Devin Harrison - Marine Geoscientist/Postdoctoral Researcher at Kelpie Geoscience - Devin is a postdoctoral research fellow at Kelpie Geoscience. His research utilises high-resolution topographic models of the seafloor and complementary geophysical and geospatial datasets to understand the geomorphic evolution and process landform relationship of the deep sea and the continental shelves. Devin is particularly interested in the glacial geomorphological record and the evolution of glacial environments from the last glacial maximum (~20-25 thousand years ago) to the present day.

We’re really trying to make this project self-sustaining, so we have started looking for ways to support the podcast. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Elena

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

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Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Jakobsson, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K. and Hogan, K. (eds.), 2016. Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient, The Geological Society of London, London. vol. 46, 618pp. doi:10.1144/M46.

Batchelor, C.L., Christie, F.D.W., Ottesen, D., Montelli, A., Evans, J., Dowdeswell, E.K., Bjarnadóttir, L.R. and Dowdeswell, J.A., 2023. Rapid, buoyancy-driven ice-sheet retreat of hundreds of metres per day. Nature, vol. 617, issue 7959, p.105-110. Doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05876-1.  

Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Post, A.L. et al. The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves. Nat Commun 10, 5635 (2019).

Seafloor surficial sediment variability across the abyssal plains of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: Lance Wordsworth (Inkfish Media)

We are still talking about Antarctica, the continent that keeps on giving!

Alan and Thom discuss trying to stop working momentarily, constructing a treehouse, and acquiring a shark.

In the news, we rattle off a list of newly discovered species with some very cool (but hard to pronounce) names. There has been a lot of squiddy news. Footage of divers swimming with a giant squid has resurfaced; in an exclusive for the podcast, Alan has recorded more amazing Magnapinna (bigfin or elbow squid) footage. And the biggest bit of news: the colossal squid has been seen alive in its natural habitat for the first time! Thom and Kat were part of the press conference.

Megalodon (the not-deep-sea and very extinct shark) has been reassessed based on what we do know. It was likely longer and slimmer than we thought, and we have estimations for their speed and size at birth.

We also have a new coelacanth population and a classic car found in the deep.

For this month's interview, we speak with Devin Harrison - Marine Geoscientist/Postdoctoral Researcher at Kelpie Geoscience - Devin is a postdoctoral research fellow at Kelpie Geoscience. His research utilises high-resolution topographic models of the seafloor and complementary geophysical and geospatial datasets to understand the geomorphic evolution and process landform relationship of the deep sea and the continental shelves. Devin is particularly interested in the glacial geomorphological record and the evolution of glacial environments from the last glacial maximum (~20-25 thousand years ago) to the present day.

We’re really trying to make this project self-sustaining, so we have started looking for ways to support the podcast. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Elena

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

Check out our podcast merch here!

Feel free to get in touch with us with questions or your own tales from the high seas on:

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A new species of hound shark from the northern Indian ocean, Iago goplakrishnani

New genus and species of feather duster worm from the hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. – Seepicola viridiplumi

Five new trench isopods in the Haploniscus belyaevi complex.

And a new dumbo octopis, Grimpoteuthis feitiana

New paper on the meg

Tyler Greenfield’s blog

Divers Encounter a Live Giant Squid Swimming on the Ocean Surface

https://youtu.be/gZxGGQc_hRI?si=ZmRhwaIF2T9RV-Lk – original video

Original video with Kat’s voiceover

Kat’s piece in The Conversation

Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Jakobsson, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K. and Hogan, K. (eds.), 2016. Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient, The Geological Society of London, London. vol. 46, 618pp. doi:10.1144/M46.

Batchelor, C.L., Christie, F.D.W., Ottesen, D., Montelli, A., Evans, J., Dowdeswell, E.K., Bjarnadóttir, L.R. and Dowdeswell, J.A., 2023. Rapid, buoyancy-driven ice-sheet retreat of hundreds of metres per day. Nature, vol. 617, issue 7959, p.105-110. Doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05876-1.  

Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Post, A.L. et al. The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves. Nat Commun 10, 5635 (2019).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13496-5

Seafloor surficial sediment variability across the abyssal plains of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1527469/full

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: Lance Wordsworth (Inkfish Media)

Song of the month: The Midnight Zone by SLADE

It’s the last in our run of episodes about Antarctica. We are all back home, and we promise to stop bothering the poor continent.

Thom couldn’t talk about it until after the press release, but the Schmidt Ocean Institute cruise he was on had to look at the seabed under a 150-meter-thick ice shelf right as it moved out of the way. We talked to the science leads on that cruise, Patricia Esquete and Sasha Montelli. We learned about the hydrography and glaciology of that region and then the seabed and communities that were revealed when the ice shelf moved away.

We’re really trying to make this project self-sustaining, so we have started looking for ways to support the podcast. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Ryker and Kerry Jowett 

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

Check out our podcast merch here! Which now includes Alan’s beloved apron and a much anticipated new design... 

Feel free to get in touch with us with questions or your own tales from the high seas on:

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Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Post, A.L. et al. The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves. Nat Commun 10, 5635 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13496-5

Helen Amanda Fricker et al., Antarctica in 2025: Drivers of deep uncertainty in projected ice loss.Science387,601-609(2025).DOI:10.1126/science.adt9619 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9619

Ingels, J., Aronson, R.B., Smith, C.R., Baco, A., Bik, H.M., Blake, J.A., Brandt, A., Cape, M., Demaster, D., Dolan, E. and Domack, E., 2021. Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 12(1), p.e682.

https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/wcc.682

Challenger 150 - Home - Challenger 150

The Ocean Census | Discover Life

Credits

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

It’s the last in our run of episodes about Antarctica. We are all back home, and we promise to stop bothering the poor continent.

Alan and Thom discuss returning to an inbox of horrors and readjusting to time away.

More cable cutting in our news updates, blobfish being voted fish of the year, and the tongue-eating louse potentially being invertebrate of the year. We don’t want to say we influence the news, but it seems a little spooky.

Thom couldn’t talk about it until after the press release, but the Schmidt Ocean Institute cruise he was on had to look at the seabed under a 150-meter-thick ice shelf right as it moved out of the way. We talked to the science leads on that cruise, Patricia Esquete and Sasha Montelli. We learned about the hydrography and glaciology of that region and then the seabed and communities that were revealed when the ice shelf moved away.

Kat and Thom updated us on what it was like to join a tourist expedition ship, and we grabbed a Coffee With Andrew to learn what it was like to dive almost 5km deep in a sub.

You’re bound to leave this episode with a watery smile!

We’re really trying to make this project self-sustaining, so we have started looking for ways to support the podcast. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Ryker and Kerry Jowett 

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

Check out our podcast merch here! Which now includes Alan’s beloved apron and a much anticipated new design... 

Feel free to get in touch with us with questions or your own tales from the high seas on:

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We’d love to actually play your voice so feel free to record a short audio note!

We are also on 

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Cable cutting

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/545872/the-new-threat-to-the-undersea-cables-keeping-our-internet-going

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct7yqx

Blobfish fish of the year

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360621538/worlds-ugliest-animal-named-new-zealands-fish-year

Invertebrate of the year

‘Unique and important’: Tongue-biting louse is wonderfully gruesome | Marine life | The Guardian

Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Post, A.L. et al. The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves. Nat Commun 10, 5635 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13496-5

Helen Amanda Fricker et al., Antarctica in 2025: Drivers of deep uncertainty in projected ice loss.Science387,601-609(2025).DOI:10.1126/science.adt9619 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9619

Ingels, J., Aronson, R.B., Smith, C.R., Baco, A., Bik, H.M., Blake, J.A., Brandt, A., Cape, M., Demaster, D., Dolan, E. and Domack, E., 2021. Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 12(1), p.e682.

https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/wcc.682

Challenger 150 - Home - Challenger 150

The Ocean Census | Discover Life

Journal Minerva – Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces

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